Posts Tagged: Die Abrechnung Des Kinderfänger

May is a bumper month for bargain books. Amazon has gone to town with a whole host promotional offers on my books in the US, UK and Germany!! Brace yourself. Here they all are!!

ACCIDENTS WAITING TO HAPPEN: Someone is out to kill Josh Michaels. An SUV runs him off the road and into a river. As his car goes down, the SUV’s driver watches only to calmly give him the “thumbs down.” This is only the first of the attempts. With his time—and maybe his luck—running out and no one willing to believe him, Josh had better figure out who wants him dead and why…before it’s too late.

PAYING THE PIPER: The Piper is the infamous child kidnapper. When the Piper selected crime reporter, Scott Fleetwood, to chronicle his latest kidnapping, Scott thought he had the world in his grasp, but he held nothing. Now, eight years later, the Piper’s back, with very specific targets in mind—Scott’s children. He can have them back as long as he can pay the ransom, but it’s a ransom not measured in dollars, but in blood.

THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY: Zoë and Holli’s Vegas road trip goes wrong when they’re abducted. Zoë escapes leaving Holli behind. A year later and still tortured with guilt, Zoë latches on to a murder that eerily resembles her abduction. Her attempts to find justice for Holli brings her to the attention of the “Tally Man.” For him, she is not a survivor but simply the one that got away.

“For years, the serial kidnapper known as the Piper got rich by abducting children from San Francisco’s wealthiest families.When crime reporter Scott Fleetwood gets a call from a man identifying himself as the Piper and offers an exclusive interview, Fleetwood jumps at the chance. But the caller turns out to be a fake, and the rash decision costs the life of the real Piper’s latest victim.For eight long years, Fleetwood has lived with unbearable guilt—and the enduring disdain of the entire Bay area. Now he hears from the real Piper—and it’s not for an interview. The kidnapper has the reporter’s son. But he doesn’t want money…he wants blood. And he’s going to use Fleetwood to get it.”

I’m looking forward to the reaction to this book.This is my best reviewed book in both the UK and US and I don’t think it’ll be any different in Germany.

Anyway, I hope German speakers will give it a whirl and English speakers will recommend it to their friends.Here’s where you can pick it up:

Keen followers of this blog will know that THE FALL GUY and PAYING THE PIPER were snapped up for German translation last year.Over the last few months, I’ve been working with two editing teams on the books and I’m happy to say they are both in production and have publication dates.

The content hasn’t changed for either book but the titles have.Slang and colloquialisms rarely travel.THE FALL GUYis now Abwärtsfahrt, which translates to Downward Drive or Downfall Drive.It’s a hard one to describe but you get where it’s going.PAYING THE PIPERis now Die Abrechnung Des Kinderfänger, which is a little more literal as it translates to Paying the Kidnapper.

Obviously, a new book means cover art.I hope you like them.I know I do.

Abwärtsfahrt will be out at the end of April in paperback and as an eBook.Die Abrechnung Des Kinderfänger will be out at the end of June in paperback, audio and as an eBook.Do tell your German speaking friends to grab a copy or three.Naturally, with a translation in a language I don’t speak, I have to put my faith in my translators that they’ll do a good job and I won’t suffer like NewsRadio’s Jimmy James at his book reading. This is every writer’s translation nightmare. 🙂